What a book! I have absolutely loved it.

It is one of the hardest books I have read in my life. And I have discovered an aspect of King that I was not aware of. Another masterpiece of the master.

I am going to take a long time to get over this book.

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This book has truly left a deep impression on me. The story is so engaging and the characters are so vividly portrayed.

It's not just a simple read; it's an experience that makes you think and feel.

King's writing style is as always, superb. He has this ability to draw you into the story and make you forget everything else.

I can't wait to read more of his works and explore other facets of his genius.

This is a new book of my life, and I cried like a fool.

It's truly an emotional journey that I'm embarking on.

The words within these pages seem to speak directly to my soul,触动着 my deepest emotions.

I find myself getting lost in the story, experiencing every joy and sorrow right along with the characters.

It's as if this book has become a companion,陪伴 me through the ups and downs of my days.

I'm grateful for the attention it has received, as it validates the importance of this new chapter in my life.

Who knows what adventures and lessons this book will bring? Only time will tell, but I'm excited to find out.

No words can possibly express my feelings toward this magnificent gem.

It is truly a wonder to behold. Its beauty is simply breathtaking, with its brilliant colors and unique shape.

Every time I look at it, I am filled with a sense of awe and wonder.

It seems to have a life of its own, shining and sparkling in the light.

I feel a deep connection to this gem, as if it is a part of me.

It has become a source of inspiration and motivation for me, always reminding me of the beauty and wonder that exists in the world.

I am truly grateful to have discovered this magnificent gem, and I will cherish it always.

Mr. Jingles is simply amazing!

He has this charm that just draws you in. Every time I see him, my heart skips a beat.

His presence is so captivating, and his actions are always full of energy and enthusiasm.

Whether he's playing around or just being himself, he always manages to bring a smile to my face.

I can't get enough of him.

He's like a bright star in my life, shining and making everything more wonderful.

I truly, deeply love Mr. Jingles with all my heart.

He's not just an ordinary being to me; he's my precious little one, and I'll always cherish him.

This has been classified in the category of "horror", along with the rest of King's books. But the only thing you have to be afraid of when reading this book is for your tear ducts. (Well, if you've also seen the movie, you can't avoid crying!) It is one of the most human ones he has written, with characters that reach your heart and a story whose humanity exceeds its supernatural element. I think that "The Green Mile" is not only one of the most important books by Stephen King, but also one of the most important and touching ones ever written.

The story in "The Green Mile" takes place in a prison and follows the lives of the prisoners and the guards. It shows the harsh reality of prison life, but also the kindness and humanity that can still exist in such a place. The characters are well-developed and you really care about what happens to them. The supernatural element adds an extra layer of mystery and intrigue to the story, making it even more engaging.

Overall, "The Green Mile" is a must-read for any fan of Stephen King or for anyone who enjoys a good, heartwarming story. It will make you laugh, it will make you cry, and it will make you think about the meaning of life and death. It is a truly remarkable book that will stay with you long after you've finished reading it.

Amazing Story

This book truly contains some of the most remarkable writing I have ever come across. The narrative is incredibly sincere and modest, which makes it all the more engaging. Every single character, whether they are good or bad, is utterly captivating. It is the kind of story that will stay with me for a very long time. This book has a wonderful blend of everything; there is humor that makes you laugh out loud, sorrow that tugs at your heartstrings, regret that makes you reflect, elation that fills you with joy, rage that makes your blood boil, and of course, there are also some paranormal aspects that add an extra layer of mystery. I have been a huge fan of the film adaptation for ages. In fact, I think I might have done myself a bit of a disservice by being so familiar with the story. This was my first time reading the book, and I felt that if I wasn't already so well-acquainted with the plot, I would have had even stronger reactions to certain parts. If I had to pick one small complaint, it would be that towards the end, I felt like it got a little preachy. However, overall, this is an extraordinary story. I would highly recommend it to anyone who is looking for a well-rounded book that can offer a wide range of emotions and experiences.

The Place: A small town in one of the southern states, specifically the county jail - the electric chair.
The Time: The Great Depression in the 1930s.
The Event: Capitalism that strips away freedom without us knowing anything about it.

I could no longer do this work. Whether the Depression happened or not. I could no longer bear to see more men pass by my office on their way to their execution. And even one more person would be too much for me to see.
The story is filled with symbols from the beginning. Every name carries a story and a purpose within its lines, and every event, no matter how strange or coincidental it may seem, is intended twice. Once for itself and once for its symbolic meaning.

At first, I found myself saying: Why did King give all that space to tell us about that mouse?!! But after the fog cleared and the sun of truth began to dawn on the horizon, I saw the depth of King's genius.
We are all born into chains from the cradle to the grave. If you are rebellious, you will cross the green mile that will lead you to Old Sparky... that electric chair that has no mercy. But if you are good and embody the order of life, the path is open before you where the old ladies' home awaits you, where you will die after your bed has been wet hundreds of times and you have lost your mind and find no one to visit you in your loneliness except the warden of the home who enjoys your discomfort and the violation of what little privacy you have left.

The world turns. That's all there is to it. You can continue your life and turn with it. Or you can stand still and be thrown out of the world.
Stephen King描绘了美国社会最糟糕的一面，资本主义已经在其深处扎根，对财富的追求和对金钱的追逐本身就是目的，而南方的种族主义法则在这个社会中被严格执行！没有禁欲和克制的法则，只有服从和屈从命运的法则。任何反抗的人都被驱逐。

The current carried John Coffey to the third degree, and the body of the leader rose again, leaning heavily from side to side under the mercy of the electric current. And when the doctor put his stethoscope on this time, it was all over. We had succeeded again in killing what we could not revive... a human soul. The silence returned to reign among the witnesses, and most of them remained in their places, their heads bowed... looking at the ground, either condemned or ashamed.
Each character among the guards represents a slice of American society, from the prisoners themselves, the leader, to the Indian who was killed by the American dream after being denied even the right to comb his hair at the moment of his death, to the Frenchman who came to them with freedom and the embodiment of their lofty human values and arts. He came here to save that mouse. The mouse that is the symbol of the American dream and the hero of his cartoon story that the world has not yet seen. Despite the execution of the Frenchman, the mouse remained like a dream waiting to be realized by the new generations. It left the place because it was waiting for freedom after being killed by the dog as usual, just as it happens in cartoon episodes exactly.

I am not a proponent of the return of the rope, but I think we should be human and kind in our efforts to solve the racial problem. But we must always remember that that Negro will surely strike if he gets the chance. Just as the tamed dog will do if it gets the chance and there is a danger for it to do so.
John Coffey is the big, sometimes kind, and always stupid dog. Did he kill the two girls or try to save them?

I have done many things in my life that I am not proud of, but this is the first time I really feel the fear of going to hell.
I looked at him to make sure he wasn't joking. I don't think he was joking. "What do you mean?"
He said: I mean we are counting down to kill someone who has not hurt anyone of us or anyone else. What am I going to say when it's all over and I'm standing in front of God and he asks me to explain why I did that? Am I going to say that this is my job?
And according to reality, the good and the great have no place in this life, but perhaps we will find a place for them on the green mile and then in the arms of Old Sparky.

I am tired of the pain I hear and feel, you leader. Tired of walking alone on the road like a small bird in the rain. I never had anyone to walk with me or tell me where we were going or where we were coming from or why. I am tired of the cruelty of people to each other. The pains fill my head like shards of broken glass. Tired of the times I tried to help and couldn't. Tired of staying in the dark. My pain is in everything and awaits me wherever I turn. My pain is a burden I carry, and if I could get rid of it, I would. But I can't.
The green mile still strips away more values, principles, and moralities, and Old Sparky still thirsts for them and demands more blood that it loves to dry.

Time takes everything with it, whether we like it or not. Time takes everything and carries everything away, and in the end, we find only darkness. Sometimes we find others in this darkness, and sometimes we lose their trace again.

This book was actually conceived as a serialized novel, particularly taking inspiration from Charles Dickens. In fact, it was published in 6 volumes with a monthly cadence from March to August 1996. Surely you know then that the novel was adapted for the cinema with the release of the film (with the same title) in 1999 in which Tom Hanks played Paul Edgecombe and Michael Clarke Duncan played John Coffey.

The story is set in the prison of Could Mountain, in particular in Block E where there is a narrow corridor of cells known as "The Green Mile" because of the characteristic color of the floor. The narrator is Paul, the head of the guards who in 1932 oversaw more than 78 executions. In fact, in the Green Mile there is Old Sparky, the electric chair. In the period to which the story refers, in the mile there are 3 prisoners: Delacroix, called Del; Wharton (the most psychotic) and John Coffey. The latter is a colored boy, big and tall, very tall, accused of having raped and killed two little girls, twin sisters.

We understand right away that the purpose of the book is to make us understand whether John Coffey, who is pronounced like the drink but is written in another way, is really guilty or not. And if the book poses this question to the reader, we can understand right away that no, Coffey has not committed any crime. This is in my opinion a very interesting aspect. King right away implicitly makes us understand that John is innocent so the reader could close the book immediately ("I already know that John Coffey is innocent, why should I continue?") Moreover, he makes us understand from the beginning that his destiny is to die in the electric chair, a further reason why the reader could close the book, (that is guys, we know the ending right away) and yet, all of you will go on until the end. Despite already knowing how things will go, you will continue reading, you won't be able to put it down and I'll tell you more, despite knowing how things will go, you will cry, for one reason or another, you will cry. I believe that only a writer of substance can afford to say or make understand how the book will end aware of the fact that the reader will go on anyway. Maybe it's an act of presumption ("I already say how it will end because I'm so good that I know that the reader will go on reading anyway") but King can afford this presumption in my opinion.

Another very interesting aspect is that King in this book talks to us about Coffey initially by narrating other events that have nothing to do with Coffey. The story of Del is told to us, because he is in the mile, how he has behaved since he has been in the mile, the close friendship with a mouse that was in the prison (not as a prisoner, be clear!); the story of Percy, a very young guard who is there only because he has connections and in fact, we will then understand that Percy, in addition to not knowing how to do that job, is also a bad person; the story of Wharton, nicknamed Billy the Kid.. In short, initially I had the impression that Coffey was only a supporting character and I didn't understand why he was telling me a whole series of characteristics or episodes regarding other characters who were supposed to be secondary. Then, obviously, everything turned out to be related, everything had a meaning, everything and everyone was connected to John Coffey and it was wonderful to discover these connections little by little; it was like untying the thousand knots that form with the shoelaces, little by little I untangled the mess and the result was really wonderful.

A further aspect that struck me very positively were the repetitions. I didn't realize it but in some way during the narration Paul started from a fact and then linked other events to it so much that then the main fact, from which the narration started, was not concluded in that chapter. King thought well to then start the next chapter with the event of the previous chapter in order to make Paul conclude it. But the fantastic thing is that the next chapter started using the same words that Paul had used to narrate the previous unfinished fact; I realized that the words were identical, if not for the addition of "I was telling you this when I interrupted myself.." and anyway I reread it! I reread the same identical words, like a rewinde and I never thought, not even once, of skipping the part, being identical, because it was a pleasant way to reconnect to the main thread, to reconnect to the story at the point where it had been interrupted. I found this way of narrating very particular, at least I have never read a book written in this way, and I liked it very much!

I shed a lot of tears and I didn't think it was possible. I mean, from the beginning I said to myself "Erika, Coffey dies, put it away" and yet there were moments when I swear guys, I had a pain in my heart. I knew perfectly well how things would go and yet King managed, once again, to make me feel bad, very bad.

I absolutely recommend this book to you because in addition to being very well written and narrated in a particular way, the theme treated is important. Not only is the death penalty talked about (and be careful, there are no paternalistic and no one tells us the pros of the death penalty are these, the cons are these) but the question of the use of the death penalty with the guilty and the innocent is deepened. In this regard I was forgetting one thing. Del is clearly guilty but never, never did I think "he deserves to die" or "he deserves the electric chair" and not because I'm good, not because I'm against the death penalty, that's not the point. The point is that King managed with Delacroix to make us see the person, he never made us see the monster but only the person and I swear, when the time of Del's death came, I cried; for him and for Coffey I would have preferred things to go differently and I repeat, Del is guilty, Coffey is innocent.

The book is well written, the themes are important, you will ask yourself some questions and it will be a book that in the end will leave you something. Once finished, believe me, you will not resume your life as if nothing had happened, it is a book that in my opinion leaves a mark.

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One of Stephen King's best works! This book could become the best reading of the year for any reader in the world.

Stephen King's writing talent is truly amazing. Every part, every scene, every sentence, everything is spectacular in this book. My favorite book by this great American author will always be Misery, because of the cruelty and unexpected twists of the plot; however, this story has entered my life and stolen a part of my soul, directly lodging in my heart. It is very, very likely that if I had read this work before Misery, my choice of "favorite book" would be completely different. What did I like about the book? I liked absolutely everything. From beginning to end. From the first word to the last line, everything, absolutely everything captivated me and produced a whole range of feelings in me. I always like to feel grateful for the opportunity to read books like this; books that help me discover that sensitive side that I possess. That sensitivity, in previous years, scared me to express for fear of ridicule, but now, with works as dramatic, melancholy, but at the same time as precious as this one, I can experience millions of emotions that make my hair stand on end, and it is completely inevitable not to express what is inside me. I will remember this story forever and it will be one of the recommendations that I will always mention to anyone interested in reading.

When you read, it's not easy to get hooked from the beginning, but here I experienced it from the very prologue in which the author explains to us the structure of the story and the way it was published. The Green Mile was published periodically in six installments, one part at a time, similar to the way Charles Dickens presented his stories in his time. More than a marketing strategy, it was a bet without expectations, but which ended up becoming one of King's best works. For those readers who faithfully followed - in real time - the publication of this story, it must have been completely torturous to read one of those parts and then have to forcibly wait for the next publication. This style of structure has provided The Green Mile with the opportunity to not have transition scenes, because each installment had to present an impactful moment and super interesting scenes that would attract the reader and keep convincing him to look for the future installment. To get an idea, it's as if a mangaka, instead of publishing his manga chapter after chapter, decided to release a volume at a time. The waiting hours must have been anguishing for the readers, although interesting for reflecting, creating theories and conversing with friends, about the future and resolution of the sad story that occurs in Cold Mountain Penitentiary.

It's a lucky thing that this book was published in this style because it allows us to know the most seductive but light prose of Stephen King. This is the easiest book of King's that I have come across so far, and I'm aware that in his other works I won't find something similar. Here the descriptions are beautifully stylized, allowing for a greater development of the characters who seem to have a life of their own, and also of all the scenes that become a very important aspect of the book. They are important because each one offers a teaching, a feeling, a reflection, such as the internal perspective of a penitentiary, or the abuses that occur in a nursing home. Regarding the style, it's also important to emphasize the great dynamic of ending each part with a critical or emotional moment, and then recapitulating with style and quality the immediate continuation in the first paragraphs of the next part. It's really a literary style that I have really liked, so I would like to repeat the experience with other authors, regardless of whether I had to read in English.

Something that I have loved and been surprised by at the same time is the combination of darkness and light that this story presents. Evil represents darkness; tenderness represents light. Imagining a penitentiary full of terrible criminals makes us imagine that we will find rude, vulgar, and completely corrupt characters because of their crimes. However, it's a surprise to find in some convicts a light of nobility, kindness, love, and tenderness, which might not correspond to our expectations, but which turns out to demonstrate a great truth in life: We are composed of several facets that contradict each other, such as perversity and nobility. Perhaps we will never be completely malevolent no matter how much hate we come to feel; perhaps, each person possesses in the depths of their soul a spark that when lit manages to transform us completely, eradicating evil from our hearts, intoxicating us with love. Perhaps being in prison, close to our own execution, manages to positively alter our minds. Each of the criminals in this book has come to Cold Mountain Penitentiary for committing atrocious crimes, but despite knowing their inevitable end, they try to live their last days peacefully, remembering their past, reflecting, talking with the guards, having fun, etc.: Knowing that we will soon die forces us to change our most immediate priorities. Obviously, not all criminals will be like this, so we will enjoy an interesting range of nuances, different personalities. At the same time, we will discover that in this story the guards are also different, so we will equally know the contrast of a good guard who tries to maintain a quiet environment in the cells, without being permissive, with another who is addicted to the suffering of others and who takes advantage of every opportunity to mistreat the prisoners.

That combination of light and darkness causes the reader to sometimes feel repulsion for the injustices and evil exposed, but at other times sadness for the execution of characters with whom one ends up getting attached. The confrontation between good and evil will always take place in any part of the world, but reading this book helps us have the small hope that in the least expected places, tender and loving scenes can develop, which allow small victories of good over evil. Not everything is lost, not everything is so bad, sometimes we forget that it is just as easy to do good as it is to do evil.

The characters have been excellent, each one has its story very well developed, clearly defined personalities, and even Mr. Jingles, a small mouse, turns out to be very important in this work. Regarding the characters, there is no complaint: The good ones have represented their role well; the bad ones equally making us hate them deeply. My favorite character has been Mr. Jingles, without a doubt. His innocence has given much beauty, and at the same time sadness, to this story.

Each execution has been tremendous, the atmosphere was so perfect that I felt as if I were there watching the death of each prisoner, and it hurt me a lot to think about the suffering and fear that the criminals were feeling once their moment to leave this world forever arrived. Each execution has so much mystery that even the guards also suffer for doing their job. It's their job, they have to do it, and they can't give up because it was a difficult time to get a job, but assassinating a person is also not easy for them to process. Technically they are doing their job very well, but morally it affects them too much to remain in that position. It's not easy when our conscience reminds us every second that it's wrong to assassinate another being, that we have no right to play God, and that our soul will always remain dirty because of what happened.

And regarding the ending, the only thing I have to say is that it has been completely moving. The author chose the final part to present many sad scenes and does it consecutively, so it doesn't give us time to recover from the tears of the previous event. Everything accumulates, it generates sadness, nostalgia, and you feel impotent because you would like to change the injustices that exist in the world. In most of the book, King makes you suffer with certain physical pains that the characters endure, but, in the final part, he makes you suffer with the emotional pains of the protagonist. It's one of the best endings that I have read in my life.

Finally, I want to express that this book has become even more special for me because with this work I have debuted my Kindle that I was encouraged to buy in the first days of February. Reading a physical book is always great, I don't deny it, but it's good to adapt to digital readings: We can't acquire everything physically. It has really been a wonderful, perfect, magical debut.

In summary, a recommended work for every reader. Prose, characters, style of the work, everything has been great, and surely you will never regret picking up this book and devouring it. I liked everything, I loved everything, I will reread it many times in the future, I will always have it in my heart. Completely recommended book.

Racism, capital punishment, and healing magic are a trifecta match made on death row.

A grain of white magic, of about a potion of a few percent given to the most important ingredient, characterization, and everything runs just so much more smoothly. That's another King trademark. He never goes the epic, high fantasy road with loads of big, badass superpowers and a rock paper scissors dynamic. Instead, he uses just a Shining, psi power, or some special medical treatment skills that give the little extra bonus to a great story. Less is often more. Demonstrating how the soft magic influences the magician, witch, or demon and the people confronted with her/him/it, how perception and world view change in other characters, and how everything slowly accelerates towards total escalation is always a thrilling ride.

Coffey lets Paul stay up all night. The main focus is on the interaction and developing relationship of these two very different characters, a disillusionized jailer and the gentle giant. The other inmates, colleagues, and the double homicide backstory are just the instigators that make Paul more and more obsessed with what's really going on with Coffey, both regarding his case and himself as a person. Meanwhile, some magical realism is making the whole thriller background plotline even more mysterious.

The death penalty and the evil inherent flaws of retributive justice are also explored. A restorative justice system without killing, hopefully guilty, criminals wouldn't have made such an incomparable monument of the flaws of human-made systems. King criticizes the American justice system, which is escalating, greed-driven, and not dissected by big history. No other democratic country combined could have such a system because they didn't have enough poor, discriminated groups of people in their own population. The neoliberal turbo capitalistic privatization of military industrial prison complexes is fed by legislation that runs on lobbyism, corruption, and neoconservatism, eliminating almost all free social and welfare services to forever feed the moloch with the fresh souls of those who have no other option than to be criminal or live and die young in poverty.

The reasons for this are complex. American history and the current system could be seen as a continuation of the triangular trade with extra steps. One could make interesting graphics including the new big players and masterminds behind it, including historical, sociological, political, and economic legitimations. But that would require objective, big history research that no one is interested in because it could awake the extremely expensive monster of compensation for Africans, native Americans, and all the others who were enslaved, killed, and suppressed from Columbus to the wild west until the 21st century. That's something elites are not interested in.

It's no problem that it wasn't meant to be a real book, but just a serial novel. King's ingenuity makes it seem as if it's one piece, never intended to be published part by part. One bonus of this writing method is that there are even more cliffhangers than in an average novel because there had to be a bigger hook at each end. Maybe it even wouldn't have been that good if King had written another, normal story without this new convention.

Racism and the prison system are also important themes. King doesn't directly point the finger at this problem, but the fact that a not guilty black guy is killed for the crime of another could be seen as a metaphor. Just as in his story Hope Springs Eternal, which culminates in the epic The Shawshank Redemption, King is dealing with the inhumanity, madness, and injustice of many draconian, hellhole prison injustice systems. He focuses on poverty, hate, and the third, most underrated justice that tends to be forgotten for dogmatic and economic reasons, distributional justice with a focus on racism. With free health care and education, and strong social services, most of this suffering could, just as in Europe, easily be avoided.

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Después del chasco que me llevé con It, sentía la necesidad de leer algo más de Stephen King. Algo que me quitara el mal sabor y me recordara porque admiraba tanto a este señor. Mi papá salió de inmediato al rescate y me recomendó que leyera La Milla Verde. \\"Es de los mejores libros de King\\", dijo. Pero yo, como toda hija que se respeta, lo ignoré. No fue sino hasta que Wilier me dijo: \\"sí no lloras eres una insensible\\", que decidí darle una oportunidad. Después de todo tenía que demostrar que sí tenía sentimientos.

La buena noticia es que mi papá tenía razón: \\n  es de los mejores libros de King.\\n La mala es que, aparentemente, soy una insensible. La Milla Verde es uno de esos casos excepcionales donde King dejó de lado el terror y enfocó su faceta dramática. Pero esto no significa que la historia no horrorice. La injusticia del sistema judicial, el racismo, la realidad de la silla eléctrica, el uso de la muerte como venganza por la muerte.

Nos enfrentamos con las mismas cuestiones filosóficas que han plagado siempre la pena de muerte. ¿Es menos culpable el que activa el interruptor de la silla que el que dispara una pistola? ¿Valen más algunas vidas que otras? ¿Es la muerte venganza o justicia? Y con otra un tanto más peculiar: ¿es peor ser condenado a morir mientras los demás viven o ser condenado a vivir mientras los demás mueren?

Y en medio de todas estas reflexiones, encontramos personajes inolvidables. Donde los buenos son los asesinos y los asesinos son los buenos. Conocemos el lado humano de los condenados, sus temores, sus arrepentimientos, sus ilusiones, y se va borrando la línea entre la víctima y el victimario.

Es un libro que te parte el corazón, que te muestra las facetas más oscuras de la humanidad solo para luego sonreir mientras te susurra \\"¿verdad que lo perdonas? ¿verdad que quieres protegerlo?\\". Lo curioso es que, por esta misma razón, también es un libro que reconforta. Aunque no lloré, cuando lo terminé me sentí llena de esperanza. Esa esperanza que puede manifestarse inclusive en la forma de un pequeño ratoncito amaestrado.